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  • Of the wild storm-cloud and the snow's cold shroud,

    The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon

  • Guilt shrunk appall'd, Despair embraced his shroud,

    Poems (1828) Thomas Gent

  • While enveloping the distant mountain-summits like a shroud,

    The Minstrel A Collection of Poems Lennox Amott

  • From pain's fierce grasp, no refuge but the shroud,

    Poems (1828) Thomas Gent

  • Anna, her face smeared with Pauline's sunburn cream, her hair damp with the preparation bought to improve Muffie's thin hair, and her teeth ashine with the family tooth powder, was on her way to bed, and the mist had crept up to the windows and wrapped everything in its eerie shroud,

    In the Mist of the Mountains Ethel Sybil Turner 1915

  • And take the burden of the world and veil his beauty in a shroud,

    The Heroes A. E. 1913

  • And take the burden of the world and dim his beauty in a shroud,

    By Still Waters Lyrical Poems Old and New George William Russell 1901

  • And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy, walks to his own funeral, drest in his shroud,

    Walt Whitman 1900

  • The life-blood drummed on the dripping decks, with the fog-dew from the shroud,

    Verses 1889-1896 Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • The life-blood drummed on the dripping decks, with the fog-dew from the shroud,

    The Seven Seas Rudyard Kipling 1900

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